| No Images? Click here  A lot has happened in the nearly 3 weeks since the devastating shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Surviving students turned their grief and anger into the most awe-inspiring action we’ve yet seen in the wake of another mass shooting.The students have staged walk-outs, held their own in television interviews while making compelling, common-sense pleas for gun control, and have written some enlightening words about their experience. Even parents have gotten in on the action, figuratively packing their kids’ backpacks, making sure they have water and sending them on way.If my eldest were old enough, I can only surmise that I’d be standing beside him as he took to the streets to speak his mind about better, more sensical gun laws. Hell, the ACLU is even getting in on the action, making sure students know their free-speech rights.As a parent and a citizen, it’s given me a tremendous amount of hope. Hope that maybe we’ve finally reached a tipping point. Hope for the next generation — not only the one that’s about to start voting, but the one behind them, too — that something could actually change in their lifetimes. And hope that there are enough parents who feel the way I do that’ll help get us over this mountainous hurdle.What about you? How do you feel these days about activism and your kids? I’d love to know: katea@huffpost.com.Funniest tweet from parents this week  Internet safety is no joke though My colleague Ann Brenoff talked to internet safety experts to discuss the apps every parent of a teenager should be wary of — and the list is more than a little startling.
For when your kid is keeping you awake Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick wrote a really short, interesting piece this week about how the Parkland students’ education prepared them for their activist moment. She argues: “Despite the gradual erosion of the arts and physical education in America’s public schools, the students of Stoneman Douglas have been the beneficiaries of the kind of 1950s-style public education that has all but vanished in America and that is being dismantled with great deliberation as funding for things like the arts, civics, and enrichment are zeroed out.” It’s a read that’ll get you thinking about the schools in your own area and their extracurricular fortitude. More stories from the trenches:  A guide to helping you raise the kind of person you'd like to know.Love what you see? Send it to a friend. Did someone forward this email? If so, subscribe here. Can't get enough? Check out (In)formation and The Good Life. |
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